Plate Tectonics Vocabulary/Quiz Schedule
A. You have two choices for making vocabulary cards
1. Use the following site: http://quizlet.com/
2. You can also make them by hand.
B. For each week your cards will be checked on the day you have the quiz. The quiz will be
comprehensive. ( words from the previous week will be used also!)
Vocabulary Words
Pg. 96-103 Inside the Earth
Crust
Mantle
Core
lithosphere
Asthenosphere
mesosphere
Tectonic plates
seismograph
Continental crust
oceanic crust(pg.96)
Compound
Date of Quiz
Friday
February 1,
2013
Pg. 104-107 Restless Continents
Continental Drift
Sea-floor Spreading
Magnetic Reversals
Pangaea
Laurasia ( pg, 105
Gondwana
Panthalassa
Friday
February 15,
2013
Pg. 108- 111. The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
divergent boundary
Transform boundary
Ridge push
Slab Pull
Convection
Global Positioning System
Pg. 112- 118 Deforming Earth’s Crust
Deformation
Stress
Compression
fault
Tension
folding
Uplift
subsidence
Anticlines
synclines
Normal Faults
Reverse Faults
Hanging Wall
Foot Wall
Strike-Slip Faults
Folded Mountains
Fault – Block Mountains Volcanic Mountains
Plate Tectonics Test to be announced
Friday
February 22, 2013